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Veterans Day Parade

Posted by Laverne Military Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

StaffSoldiers march in last year’s Veterans Day Parade in downtown Huntsville. HUNTSVILLE, AL. — Huntsville’s Veterans Day Parade starts this morning at 11 a.m. The parade begins at Clinton Avenue in front of the U.S. Post Office, takes a right at Monroe Street past the Von Braun Center, then winds around downtown via Williams Avenue, [...]

U.S. House Approves Bill

Posted by Laverne Military Friday, September 26th, 2008

Missile Defense Agency work in Huntsville and Army helicopter programs at Redstone Arsenal are among defense programs the U.S House approved for $487.7 billion in a spending bill this week. The Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act passed Wednesday provides defense programs with $28.4 billion more than 2008 funding, said U.S. Rep. Bud [...]

House bill OKs $8.7 Billion

Posted by Laverne Military Thursday, September 25th, 2008

The U.S. House has passed a bill that includes more than $8.7 billion to continue implementing the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure decision, a $667 million increase from 2008, according to U.S. Rep. Bud Cramer, D-Huntsville. In the 2005 BRAC plan, the Army Materiel Command, Security Assistance Command will move from to Redstone Arsenal from [...]

Hopkins Dies at 93

Posted by Laverne Military Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

LITTLE ROCK — Maudie White Hopkins did what she had to do as a young girl living a hard-scrabble life in the Ozarks during the Depression. In a family of 10 children, she did laundry and cleaned house for an elderly Confederate veteran in Baxter County whose wife had died years earlier. When he offered [...]

Unarmed Missile Tested

Posted by Laverne Military Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — An unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully tested early Wednesday, the Air Force said. The ICBM was launched at 1:01 a.m. and its three unarmed re-entry vehicles traveled about 4,220 miles over the Pacific Ocean to targets near the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, an Air [...]